Re: [HACKERS] Will PostgreSQL get ported to CUDA?

2008-01-31 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 08:27:47PM +, Gregory Stark wrote: > "Christopher Browne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > This was based on GPUSort: > > http://gamma.cs.unc.edu/GPUSORT/ > > I looked briefly at GPUSort a while back. I couldn't see how to shoehorn into > POstgres the assumption that you

Re: [HACKERS] Will PostgreSQL get ported to CUDA?

2008-01-31 Thread Hannu Krosing
On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 12:56 -0800, Dann Corbit wrote: > It's too bad that they have a restrictive license. > > Perhaps there is an opportunity to create an "information appliance" > that contains a special build of PostgreSQL, a nice heap of super-speedy > disk, and a big pile of GPUs for sort a

Re: [HACKERS] Will PostgreSQL get ported to CUDA?

2008-01-30 Thread Simon Riggs
On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 17:55 +, Christopher Browne wrote: > 2008/1/30 Dann Corbit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > http://www.scientificcomputing.com/ShowPR~PUBCODE~030~ACCT~300100~ISSUE~0801~RELTYPE~HPCC~PRODCODE~~PRODLETT~C.html > > > > http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_learn.html > > > > ht

Re: [HACKERS] Will PostgreSQL get ported to CUDA?

2008-01-30 Thread Dann Corbit
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:pgsql-hackers- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Browne > Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 9:56 AM > To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org > Subject: [HACKERS] Will PostgreSQL get ported to CUDA? > &g

Re: [HACKERS] Will PostgreSQL get ported to CUDA?

2008-01-30 Thread Gregory Stark
"Christopher Browne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This was based on GPUSort: > http://gamma.cs.unc.edu/GPUSORT/ I looked briefly at GPUSort a while back. I couldn't see how to shoehorn into POstgres the assumption that you're always sorting floating point numbers. You would have to add some prop

[HACKERS] Will PostgreSQL get ported to CUDA?

2008-01-30 Thread Christopher Browne
2008/1/30 Dann Corbit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: http://www.scientificcomputing.com/ShowPR~PUBCODE~030~ACCT~300100~ISSUE~0801~RELTYPE~HPCC~PRODCODE~~PRODLETT~C.html > > http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_learn.html > > http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_get.html Someone at CMU has tried this,

Re: [HACKERS] Will PostgreSQL get ported to CUDA?

2008-01-30 Thread Tom Lane
"Dann Corbit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_get.html The license terms here seem to be sufficient reason why not. regards, tom lane ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Have you searched our list

Re: [HACKERS] Will PostgreSQL get ported to CUDA?

2008-01-30 Thread Simon Riggs
On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 22:12 -0800, Dann Corbit wrote: > http://www.scientificcomputing.com/ShowPR~PUBCODE~030~ACCT~300100~ISSUE~0801~RELTYPE~HPCC~PRODCODE~~PRODLETT~C.html > > http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_learn.html > > http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_get.html > I assume you

[HACKERS] Will PostgreSQL get ported to CUDA?

2008-01-29 Thread Dann Corbit
http://www.scientificcomputing.com/ShowPR~PUBCODE~030~ACCT~300100~IS SUE~0801~RELTYPE~HPCC~PRODCODE~~PRODLETT~C.html http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_learn.html http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_get.html